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When it comes to comas or persistent vegetative states, thankfully, most of us have not had to be very well educated. If you don't know much about it, consider yourself lucky. Unfortunately, just like anything in life, your luck, or the luck of your loved ones, can shift without warning. You may become intimately familiar with the Glasgow Coma Scale, a scale used to quantify the severity of a coma based on eye opening response, verbal response, and motor response. Or be interested in the German use of music therapy, believed to quicken a patients recovery. Or the Belgian use of dogs and cats to let hospital staff know that a patient in a coma has awoken.
You will also hopefully never have to know about persistent vegetative states and death with dignity, the central debate in the case of Terri Schiavo. Unfortunately, while ignorance is bliss, at the critical time that your family needs to know your decision regarding artificial life support, you would be unable to communicate. With a little time, you can establish a legal document which indicates what you want to have happen if you are ever in that situation. The document is called a North Dakota living will and simply outlines your wishes concerning life support if you become terminally ill or are in a persistent vegetative state.
LegalZoom can help prepare a customized living will that meets every North Dakota requirement. Start the process today by simply filling out our easy-to-follow online questionnaire. Get your very own living will in three easy steps.
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